Chaired by Callum Chomczuk, national director of CIH Scotland and chair of the Scottish Housing Day 2025 working group
What kick-started Scotland's community-based housing association movement and what keeps activism going today?
Back in the 1970's, women were leading and driving change in their neighbourhoods and the development of CBHA's. What were the barriers they faced in catalysing community ownership and how can local people today build on the successes to improve neighbourliness and improve their sense of community?
It's a women's world
10:10
Kim McKee
|senior Lecturer in social policy & housing, University of Stirling
Dr McKee is Director of the Housing Studies Programme at the University of Stirling and an editor of the journal Housing Studies. She was previously Director of the St Andrew’s Centre for Housing Research (2014-18) and Chair of the UK Housing Studies Association (2014-15). Dr McKee has researched and published widely on the private rented sector, with a particular interest in the experiences of young people and low-income groups.
While housing is at the heart of any community, we all need more than just that. How are local people and statutory services working to improve communities, neighbourly relations and wellbeing across all of our communities?
Speakers to be announced
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Communities don't exist in isolation but respond to the political and economic context of their environment. What is impacting local communities across Scotland and what must come next?
Let's get national
12:30
Laurie McFarlane
|Co-director, Future Economy Scotland
Laurie is a visiting fellow at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose (IIPP). Before this, he was a senior economist at the New Economics Foundation. Laurie is also the co-author of the critically acclaimed book ‘Rethinking the Economics of Land and Housing’.
At a time when people are embracing tech to work remotely, how can communities and local people repurpose our robotic revolution to bring people together?
Speakers to be announced
